Appointments
For any mundane, non-critical one-on-one interactions with the scientist here, whether it be poking him for whatever reason, maintaining continuity, throwing him an item, or in general doing something that isn't momentous enough to require a whole post or log for it.
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Type of Thread: Voice, probably quickly becoming Action
Location: House 55, Robert's apartment, points between?
[It's been three days since Raphael's return, two since Vivi's disappearance. That's enough time to resume a semblance of normalcy, right? In the confusion, those two things Don meant to give Robert slipped from his mind, but he's remembered them now, and he hopes it isn't too soon, too insensitive, to bring them up again.]
Robert? Can I talk to you?
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... I... [He stops himself from saying "I have nothing there", because that's a lie. He does have a life to go back to... ostensibly. He has his job. He had the interview at the Head Institute.
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But... but, he wants to be with Don...]
... P-Perhaps I... I could return with you.
[He... isn't sure if he would give all of it up, but a lot of him says yes.]
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You wouldn't want to live where I live.
[You don't want to live with his family here; how would you handle living with them in a sewer? Part of him insists that he never did live in a sewer, that it's just another false memory from his time here - but even after fifteen months there's something too vivid, too visceral, for it to be just a dream.]
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Anywhere where you are is where I want to be.
[That includes a sewer.
He's resisted the idea of living with the Hamatos only because he knows they'd be uncomfortable. It's not his discomfort, really... though of course, he has absolutely no idea what living in a sewer would entail. In all honesty Robert would probably die, or at least become incredibly sick.
It doesn't stop him from standing there and declaring beyond a doubt that he'd do it, though. And in the end, it's highly probable that he would even if he did die.]
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Did I tell you I lived in a sewer?
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... And it's not like Robert has experience with sewers like 2003 A.D. New York's. Terran municipal water systems are far more efficient and much cleaner overall - and the idea is still horrifying.]
... No, you... d-did not.
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... Why...? ... Was, was it because of the humans in your world...?
[Goddamn; if anything ever made Robert want to actually consider possibly hurting some humans, it is hearing that this was done to his partner and his family.]
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The impossible to keep clean part just makes the OCD cleaner in him shudder.]
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[Don trails his hand along Robert's sleeve as he moves to the couch and settles there.]
The brickwork. The waterfalls. [A dorky smile.] The hydrodynamics of the system... Some of the tunnels are hundreds of years old. Not to mention the cliffs, the canyons, the Sunken Forest... [He sighs.] No one knows the sewers like we do.
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I... I would like to see, someday. Perhaps.
[Even if OCD makes him want to clean every square centimetre of the place.
For now he just leans his head and nestles it against Don's side.]
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I miss it sometimes.
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I understand the feeling... there are many places in Linden I miss as well, here.
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Perhaps one day we can... at least visit each other's homes...
[He twines his fingers in Don's, gently. It's not a sacrifice he's ever had to think of making before Luceti.]
And there are others I would like to take with me, and visit the homes of, too...
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Tell me about Linden.
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Man, the mun needs to have more specific ideas for this...]
Ah, where do I even begin...
Linden is far, far bigger than Luceti, for starters. Not sprawling - Terran cities are compact for maximum efficiency - but large simply in terms of conglomeration. The architecture is often smooth-edged, though form following function is also a common stylistic element for buildings; however, contrary to the buildings here, many of them have active floral cultures and almost all buildings have some species of plant fitting into it. Megatropolises are habitat spaces as well.
... I miss the transport tubes; they spanned the entire megatropolis and were spaced efficiently enough that one would never need to walk more than fifty metres to get anywhere. [Of course, with that efficiency comes a lack of need for exercise...]
... But the crown jewel of Linden is the Linden branch of the Randi Institute... it is a beautiful, almost megalithic structure. [Robert ( ... )
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Did you say there was a museum in it?
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Well, there is a museum in Linden [- which still needs a name -] but the Institute does have a smaller one for specimens that may undergo active analysis.
... Why do you ask, exactly?
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